On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Copy up mtime and ctime to overlay inode after times in real object are > modified. Be careful not to dirty cachelines when not necessary. > > This is in preparation for moving overlay functionality out of the VFS. > > This patch shouldn't have any observable effect. > > Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > fs/overlayfs/dir.c | 5 +++++ > fs/overlayfs/inode.c | 1 + > fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 7 +++++++ > fs/overlayfs/util.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ > 4 files changed, 32 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c > index 839709c7803a..cd0fa2363723 100644 > --- a/fs/overlayfs/dir.c > +++ b/fs/overlayfs/dir.c > @@ -507,6 +507,7 @@ static int ovl_create_or_link(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode, > else > err = ovl_create_over_whiteout(dentry, inode, attr, > hardlink); > + ovl_copytimes_with_parent(dentry); > } > out_revert_creds: > revert_creds(old_cred); > @@ -768,6 +769,7 @@ static int ovl_do_remove(struct dentry *dentry, bool is_dir) > drop_nlink(dentry->d_inode); > } > ovl_nlink_end(dentry, locked); > + ovl_copytimes_with_parent(dentry); > out_drop_write: > ovl_drop_write(dentry); > out: > @@ -1079,6 +1081,9 @@ static int ovl_rename(struct inode *olddir, struct dentry *old, > ovl_dentry_version_inc(new->d_parent, ovl_type_origin(old) || > (d_inode(new) && ovl_type_origin(new))); > > + ovl_copytimes_with_parent(old); > + ovl_copytimes_with_parent(new); > + All the ovl_copytimes_with_parent() calls you added can be replaced with a single call in ovl_dentry_version_inc(). Just need to change its name and pass it the child instead of the parent dentry. Thanks, Amir.